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Patient-Led Research Collaborative @patientled.bsky.social · 10h
"In addition, teachers’ unions should advocate for more teachers living with #LongCovid to receive all necessary accommodations and supports to continue to serve as educators, including being able to teach part-time." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Patient-Led Research Collaborative @patientled.bsky.social · 10h
"We encourage schools to invest in interventions that will have public health benefits with minimal educational consequences. We particularly highlight air purification and ventilation as highly effective in reducing risk of infection."
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Patient-Led Research Collaborative @patientled.bsky.social · 10h
"Teachers are over-represented among people living with #LongCovid... In a nationwide USA sample from 2022, 9.5% of currently employed elementary and secondary teachers reported having Long COVID."
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Patient-Led Research Collaborative @patientled.bsky.social · 10h
A new publication is out from PLRC member Dr. Alison Cohen of UCSF! "We encourage state legislatures to pass legislation that requires all schools to make changes to their infrastructure to support cleaner air to protect students & teachers." #LongCovid
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Jon Douglas @atranscendedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
CDC sent me the 2025 NHIS data this week, and one number stuck with me. 8.7 million American adults were living with Long COVID in 2025. That's 1 in 30 of us. It's easy to stop seeing a crisis once it stops being new. It's still happening. www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhis/do...
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Semafor @semafor.com · 30/09/2026
Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A fifth measles death in Pennsylvania. Entirely preventable.
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Pennsylvania reports fifth measles-related death of the year amid outbreak
Measles outbreak in the state has now reached 39 counties, with 943 confirmed cases and 176 hospitalizations
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🦋Dr. Natalia🕊🌻🪬 @solnatamd.medsky.social · 30/09/2026
Insurers deploy AI to deny. Hospitals deploy AI to bill higher. The patient isn't in the loop. It's an arms race, & the war itself is administrative waste. Patients pay twice: in premiums, & in records written for machines, not the next doctor. We need rules that protect patients!!!
healthcaredive.com
Insurers say AI could add billions in health costs. Billing companies disagree
Studies from insurers say AI-backed billing tools used by providers raise health costs. But the companies making those tools say the problem isn’t with AI — it’s with the healthcare billing system.
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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/old...
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Older adults hospitalized for COVID at increased risk for stroke, data show
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Denise Balkissoon @balkissoon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Residential schools were a tool Canada used to steal Indigenous land. These Narwhal stories explore that connection, and efforts to rebuild relationships between Indigenous communities and the places they come from, to strengthen their cultures and their futures. thenarwhal.ca/tag/truth-an...
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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
US sending pesticide-laden berries to Canada?? "the excess chemical levels were due to over-spraying and the removal of food safety compliance parameters for berries sent to Canada" Half of the company's exports to Canada had pesticide levels exceeding CFIA standards. www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
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What to know about chemical levels on Driscoll's berries | CBC News
You may be having second thoughts about eating the berries in your fridge after CBC News spoke with a whistleblower who made a startling claim about the amount of chemicals on fruit that a U.S. compan...
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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Alberta ‘failed’ Cargill workers amid COVID-19 outbreak with inaction, overconfidence: report | CBC News
A new report says a number of factors converged to produce a “preventable tragedy” in which two workers and four close contacts died after a massive COVID-19 outbreak at Cargill’s beef processing plan...
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Ruth Ann Crystal @drruth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Viral remnants causing vascular damage. Long COVID claims surging 2-3 weeks post-ER. AI chatbots duped by political "pink slime." This week's newsletter was so packed I had to split it into 2 parts! Part I (COVID): buff.ly/nSoGZsi Part II (Med News): buff.ly/MEx3iKr #medsky #IDsky
Alt text: Landscape Dr. Ruth Report infographic dated 9/28/26, with a warm yellow background and five illustrated panels. Viral protein fragments inflame a blood vessel; a speaker presents Stanford ME/CFS research; a hamster appears beside a heart and nerves; offset curves show Long COVID claims rising 2–3 weeks after COVID ER surges; and a partisan news site feeds an AI chatbot. Footer: drruth.substack.com.
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"During the testing phase for the new model, it showed high levels of what the company saw as deception, or a willingness to mislead users about its actions.The model was also willing to go beyond the original scope of what it was asked to do, without checking back for directions or instructions."
nytimes.com
OpenAI Says It Will Not Release Newest Astra A.I. Model Over Safety Concerns
The company’s researchers raised questions about the security of the model, known as GPT-6.1 Astra.
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“We can say that political pressure, deference to public health, negligence, and incompetence all contributed to the tragedy. Further evidence suggests that government officials prioritized the interests of the meat-processing industry over the health and safety of meat-packing workers."
albertapolitics.ca
Political pressure, negligence, incompetence all contributed to pandemic tragedy at High River plant, new report says - Alberta Politics
One of the most disgraceful episodes of the COVID-19 pandemic in Alberta took place on April 18, 2020, when Devin Dreeshen, Jason Copping and Deena Hinshaw assured employees of Cargill Inc.’s meat pac...
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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
CIDRAP: 'COVID may worsen existing health problems long-term, study suggests' 'Long COVID is often described as new-onset symptoms that follow a COVID infection, but the condition also includes exacerbation of preexisting conditions.' www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cov...
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COVID may worsen existing health problems long-term, study suggests
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Graeme Bayliss @gbayliss.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I wrote about Premier Doug Ford's apparent indifference to human life for @thestar.com: www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
thestar.com
Graeme Bayliss: His cyclist friend was killed. Why did Doug Ford’s response include ‘lmao’?
No one is expecting the premier to mash out the Bixby letter on his iPhone. Yet we might expect more than this.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The truth is, you can belittle maskers, shrug off disabled people, and call us all crazy a million times, but you’re going to have to live in the world you’re building with these choices, and outcomes don’t care that your views are popular right now. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/mor...
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More than 1 in 10 US healthcare workers report ongoing long-COVID symptoms, study finds
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Sue Gowans @sueinnovates.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is appalling. Please read Ford's response to a person who wrote him after his friend, a cyclist, was killed on Avenue Road. Ford: "“I am sorry for your loss! Star is always truthful lmao! I have been talking to the Mayor last week about University!” www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...
Clip of a Toronto Star article, "Opinion | His cyclist friend was killed. Why did Doug Ford’s response include ‘lmao’? Gift link for the article, in the post above.
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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Read the whole 🧵, with the now unpaywalled stories from @rorywh.bsky.social. The Bradford team has to sort this out -- and fast. With Bradford's shaky denial today, this is now a bigger cleanup-in-aisle-four situation for the campaign. Great investigative work from @nationalobserver.com. #ToPoli
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 28/09/2026
Here's the recording of Bradford's remarks, and the recording of the original campaign meeting in which a volunteer with ties to the Victory App itself explained how the rewards would work.
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 28/09/2026
We are also taking all three stories (the two investigations and today's corroboration piece) out from behind the paywall for the sake of transparency and accessibility. Barbara Streisand would be proud.
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 28/09/2026
This morning — following two investigations into Toronto mayoral candidate Brad Bradford's use of an app that rewards supporters for posting AI-generated comments and sharing contacts — Bradford called our reporting "inaccurate." We're now releasing the recording that proves our reporting.
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Bradford calls CNO reporting of AI app rewards ‘inaccurate.’ Here’s the recording proving our reporting.
Canada’s National Observer has decided to publish the segment of the Zoom call that corroborates its reporting.
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Nosferatu @realnosferatu.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
BREAKING: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Tests Positive For COVID-19 Before Congress Leaves Capitol Hill. "The New York congresswoman said she is open to traveling to Florida to campaign while actively battling the virus. "
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Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"...story of systemic regulatory failure by Alberta Ministry of Labour & Alberta Health Services... defined by a lack of preparedness, inaction, overconfidence, cultural stereotypes and racism, incompetence, and deliberate aversion to using available enforcement measures." @ipaccanada.bsky.social
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TheTrillium.ca @thetrillium.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ontario’s new labour minister says goal with troubled training fund is ‘using every dollar wisely’
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Ontario’s new labour minister says goal with troubled training fund is ‘using every dollar wisely’
Trevor Jones discussed the Skills Development Fund at length publicly for the first time on Monday
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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
persuading other women to act against their own (& often, their kids') best interests. They do damage to the work of generations of women who fought to improve women's lives. In vocally rejecting rights other women have struggled & died for, they set us up for domestic abuse, physical & health...
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Catherine Clase @catherineclase.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Prescribing vaccines should be as routine as prescribing statins or blood pressure meds. Every healthcare worker has a role in renormalizing vaccination. Don't be apologetic. Speak to your patients and clients from your knowledge. Worst thing that happens is they turn you down.
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Nick Tsergas @nicktsergas.ca · 25/09/2026
This is what we've warned municipal councils about across the country. A developer can say they're building one thing, but legislatively there is nothing to stop them from building a very different thing. That's the whole banana. Thank you once again @its.small.patatas.ca for reporting this.
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Nick Tsergas @nicktsergas.ca · 25/09/2026
Last week Sask. Premier Scott Moe announced the contentious 300MW AI datacentre going up outside of Regina is actually going to be 1,200MW. In #HamOnt, newly-obtained documents show Slate Asset Management has been planning for 800MW of datacentre capacity "at full scale."
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Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 25/09/2026
Also, wait: it seems the Bradford campaign should know the 2026 number in the tweet is wrong because the graphic's background says $16.6 billion? What is even going on.
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Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 25/09/2026
Also what does “open the books” even mean in this context? The budget process is very public. It’s not like the actual budget is kept in some secure facility somewhere. You can look now, if you’re nerdy enough.
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Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 25/09/2026
To do the math here you first have to fix a basic error: Bradford’s 2026 figure includes the rate budget (garbage, water, parking) but his 2011 figure does not. Real numbers: $9.4 billion in 2011; $16.6 billion in 2026. Now account for ~800K population growth and ~40% inflation.
A Twitter post by Brad Bradford criticizing NDP Mayor Olivia Chow's statement dismissing the need for a budget audit, featuring a meme with the text 'WHY WON'T she LOOK?' overlaid on an image of Mayor Chow.
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Geoffrey P Johnston😎🇨🇦🇺🇦 @geoffypjohnston.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Police investigating threatening email sent to Muslim schools across Canada | CBC News www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Police investigating threatening email sent to Muslim schools across Canada | CBC News
Regional police forces in Ontario have launched an investigation into an email sent to Islamic schools across Canada over the course of this week, which threatened to kill Muslims unless they are depo...
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Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Is AI Flooding Medical Journals With 'Meaningless' Research? With some quotes by Ivan Oransky, Elena Vicario, and me: "We are at a point now that we cannot distinguish fake from real," said Elisabeth Bik By @rachrobertson.bsky.social @medpagetoday.com www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
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Is AI Flooding Medical Journals With 'Meaningless' Research?
'It's not fraudulent, and it's not really slop,' one expert says
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Jon Douglas @atranscendedman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Researchers reviewed 146 studies and found gut disruption can persist for 6 months after COVID. In Long COVID, loss of beneficial bacteria tracked with ongoing symptoms, while microbiome recovery tracked with improvement. www.resmedjournal.com/article/S095...
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The Gut-Lung Axis in Respiratory Diseases: Mechanisms, Microbiome Dysbiosis, and Therapeutic Implications. A Comprehensive Review
The gut and lung, though anatomically distinct, are connected through a dynamic, bidirectional communication network known as the gut-lung axis, whereby intestinal microbiota, immune cells, and microb...
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Jon Douglas @atranscendedman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Baylor College of Medicine, 20 placentas. SARS-CoV-2 disrupted placental iron export, causing iron buildup and ferroptosis signaling. Spike protein remained detectable at term after earlier infection, alongside lasting iron changes. www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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Placental trophoblasts exhibit iron dysregulation and ferroptosis signaling associated with SARS-CoV-2 restriction
McColl et al. demonstrate that SARS-CoV-2 impairs placental iron efflux, leading to persistent iron accumulation and impaired maternal-fetal iron transfer, and activates ferroptosis signaling, which m...
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Jon Douglas @atranscendedman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
University of Otago researchers reviewed DNA methylation studies across ME/CFS, Long COVID and fibromyalgia. One 10-patient comparison found 118 shared altered regions in ME/CFS and Long COVID, suggesting overlapping gene regulation. www.cell.com/trends/genet...
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DNA methylation: unifying framework for complex chronic conditions
Complex chronic conditions represent a growing health burden that is poorly understood and inadequately managed within current health systems. This review focuses on the potential of epigenetic DNA me...
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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Carried out a study with 144 #LongCOVID participants and 90 controls. Since LC is not always known/diagnosed well, the 90 controls had to go through a questionnaire to determine if they did not have LC. (20 (?) shifted into LC group!)
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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Infuriating. “Local public hospitals already have the facilities: operating rooms and MRIs are sitting unused in local public hospitals because they are not given adequate funding to run them full time,” says the report..." #OnPoli #OnHealth
“Furthermore, the evidence is that the for-profit clinics have not reduced wait times for the majority, serving mostly a minority of high-income people while actually lengthening waits for the majority of patients.”
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David Coletto @davidcoletto.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ontarians make a pretty clear connection between infrastructure and safety. 72% say investing in proper cycling infrastructure makes roads safer for everyone. 60% say they’d feel more confident cycling with safe, connected infrastructure. sharetheroad.ca/news/64-of-...
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Jonathan Douglas PhD CPsych @jonathanconp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
These two things are simultaneously true: 1) Carney is exactly the right person to lead Canada at this moment, and he may be on the brink of turning Canada into a powerhouse of world politics and 2) if he doesn't start to take the environment and public health seriously we're all gonna suffer.
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Colin Furness MISt PhD MPH @furnesscolin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Is COVID surging in Ontario? I think it is. Wastewater surveillance lags about 2 weeks (which yes, mostly defeats its purpose). It reads as low/moderate. But in other jurisdictions around us it's surging. Anecdotally, I see a big bump in infections among people I know, just in the last week. 1/4
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
we need to oppose this horrific omnibus bill environmentaldefence.ca/2026/09/21/s...
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Statement: The Government of Canada’s Bulldoze Nature Bill Should Not Pass - Environmental Defence
Statement from Julia Levin, Associate Director, National Climate Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – Today’s
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Diana Chard @dianachard.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sure would be nice if we could start getting updated Covid and flu vaccines before the start of school in Canada. Covid cases are rising and flu-a has already entered the chat (outbreak just declared in a local LTCH).
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Dr. Genevieve Eastabrook, MD FRCSC (she/her) @placentadoc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Just one month away! I’m looking forward to meeting some fellow long COVID researchers & people of lived experience @longcovidweb.bsky.social
Check us out at 4th Canadian
Symposium on Long COVID!
Poster title: Impact of Long
COVID on Fertility Intentions Among Canadian Women: A Cross-Sectional
Survey
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Jeff Gilchrist @jeffgilchrist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What is the #Nuvaxovid COVID vaccine and how is it different? @paulseaman.bsky.social and I have put together a comprehensive document summarizing the available information regarding the main differences between Nuvaxovid and the more common mRNA based #COVID vaccines. 🧪🧵1/ #Novavax #Vaccine
Nuvaxovid protein-based nanoparticles are made of engineered proteins that help trigger an immune response ( https://www.nature.com/articles/s41541-021-00330-7 ).
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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
CIDRAP: 'More than 1 in 10 US healthcare workers report ongoing long-COVID symptoms, study finds' www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/mor...
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More than 1 in 10 US healthcare workers report ongoing long-COVID symptoms, study finds
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Jon Douglas @atranscendedman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
UTHealth Houston, 15.3 million insured Texans. Long COVID claims followed COVID ED waves by 2 to 3 weeks. Rates were highest in adults over 70 and Medicare patients, with rural Texas also carrying a higher documented burden. www.ijidonline.com/article/S120...
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Temporal, demographic, and geographic patterns of long COVID incidence in relation to SARS-CoV-2 variant emergence: Insights from the Texas all-payer claims database (TX-APCD)
Long COVID, characterized by the persistence of symptoms beyond the acute phase of SARS-CoV-2 infection, affects an estimated 10-30% of individuals with COVID-19, representing around 400 million peopl...
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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/mor...
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More than 1 in 10 US healthcare workers report ongoing long-COVID symptoms, study finds
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